May 9, 2024

Canvas Updates for Summer 2024

Updates for June 25, 2024

SpeedGrader: Studio Media Comment Screen Capture and Auto Captioning
Canvas has released a new feature in the Speedgrader that allows instructors to provide student feedback using screen capture and captions. This update enhances the clarity of instructor feedback and improves accessibility by providing a streamlined user experience.

Canvas Discussions Redesign
Instructure has announced the Discussions/Announcements Redesign which will be turned on in all Canvas courses on July 20, 2024. The redesigned discussions and announcements has all of the same functionality of classic discussions and announcements, with a new look and a few additional features. The redesign aims to create a more engaging, user-friendly, and efficient interface for all users.
New Analytics
Canvas New Analytics is a powerful tool that allows instructors to view grade analytics, participation metrics, file views, and more across a variety of course contexts. Although New Analytics has been available in Canvas as a feature option, Instructure will replace the current analytics feature with New Analytics on July 20, 2024.

New Quizzes
As you may have heard, a new quizzing engine (New Quizzes) is coming and will become the native quizzing engine within our Canvas LMS instance. To prepare for this transition, New Quizzes will be enabled in all Canvas courses on May 8. After May 8, when building a quiz from scratch, you will have the option to choose between a Classic Quiz (our current quiz engine) or a New Quiz.
Gradebook: “Message Students Who” Enhancements
In the Gradebook, the “Message Students Who” feature has been enhanced to allow instructors to message students who have submitted an assignment. Options include messaging all students who have submitted on time, students with graded on-time assignments, and students with ungraded on time assignments. For “students who have not submitted”, there is now a checkbox allowing instructors to exclude excused students from the message.

Please visit Instructure’s Canvas Releases page for comprehensive release notes.